What about the religious leaders in the time of Herod. Part of their brief would have been to know about a new star in the sky and what it meant. It was left to foreign magi to study and observe the new star and discover it’s meaning. They had all the required knowledge, their life had been spent studying, yet they didn’t know about this star and what it portrayed. What were they about? What had distracted them? Did their lives revolve round how important they were and their position or were they just not interested? They obviously weren’t doing their job because they had missed the significance of this particular star. They had missed the point.
Are we like this in our religious life? Are we distracted by our own importance? Do we take our our eye off the star and the direction God is leading us? The only way to keep focused is to look to Him.